HISTORIC
WATERWAYS OF BUFFALO:

The
Western Terminus of the Erie Canal

The streets and waterways of the canal district from 1884
overlaid on a 2007 aerial view of the area

A great source of
maps, pictures, and stories of the area is the book by Michael N. Vogel, Ed Patton, and Paul Redding titled: America's
Crossroads, Buffalo's Canal Street/ Dante Place: The Making of a City: Acorn Books LLC P.O. Box 294, Derby, New York 14047
http://danteplace.com/

I'm a
Buffalo native who has always been fascinated with what "used to be there," from
my childhood growing up in North Buffalo I often wondered about what the city
was like in the past. I would walk along the Belt Line (then the New York
Central) and was curious about the ghost tracks which led to an area which I
would later discover was the grounds of the Pan American Exposition.